Have a coke

Jeff Jacoby has a column, I wonder what he left out to make his point this time:

A few days before the Super Bowl, MSNBC embarrassed itself with an obnoxious tweet implying that “rightwing” conservatives are such bigots that they were bound to “hate” a Cheerios commercial featuring a biracial couple and their adorable daughter, Gracie. The backlash was blistering and instantaneous, and the cable channel apologized and deleted the tweet.

When it comes to playing the race card against anyone to its right, MSNBC is a recidivist. The smear over the Cheerios ad came just a few weeks after an on-air panel smirkingly joked about Mitt and Ann Romney’s newly-adopted black grandson and how incongruous he appeared in the family’s Christmas photo. That flap also triggered an uproar, followed by multiple apologies.

Count me among those who can’t imagine anyone this side of the fever swamps viewing that sweet Cheerios ad or the Romneys’ quiver full of grandchildren with any kind of racial disapproval, let alone one driven by politics. That some on the left can so casually traffic in such slander reflects nothing but their own bigotry against conservatives.

Hmm, what happened during the Super Bowl–oh yeah, there was a commercial for Coca-Cola. How did that go?:

I am quite sure there may be some who appreciated the commercial, but Coca Cola missed the mark in my opinion. If we cannot be proud enough as a country to sing “American the Beautiful” in English in a commercial during the Super Bowl, by a company as American as they come — doggone we are on the road to perdition. This was a truly disturbing commercial for me, what say you?

Thanks, Allen West. What say you Glenn Beck:

“And I said, ‘Why did you need that to divide us politically?’ Because that’s all this ad is,” Beck opined. “It’s in your face, and if you don’t like it, if you’re offended by it, you’re a racist. If you do like it, you’re for immigration. You’re for progress.”

But those are but two people, what about more generally:

The judgment that the ad was offensive was more common among Republicans (37 percent) than among independents (24 percent) or Democrats (10 percent).

Forty-one percent of Republicans said they were either angry or disappointed about the ad, while only 17 percent said they were happy about it. Democrats were more likely to describe themselves as happy (39 percent) than either angry or disappointed (11 percent combined). Twenty-one percent of independents said they were happy, while 32 percent said they were either angry or disappointed. About one-third of each group said they were indifferent.

Gee, I wonder why Jeff leaves this out, perhaps because it kills his point?

Anyway, let me linger on the Coca-Cola video a bit. Coke has put up a video showing the people in the ad talking about their background a bit, including the fact that they’re all American and all speak English. They also have put up longer pieces of the individuals in the ad singing the song in other languages, such as Keres–this would be the language of the Pueblo tribe.

I really wonder why they get so upset about these newer immigrants. Wait, maybe if we look in the past we can find out–when English settlers came to this continent they brought their own culture and language, kept to themselves, and then took over from the natives. I see, some Americans are worried that the new immigrants will do what the original immigrants did.